Maresa Fagan: Testing times keeping up with demand

Dr. James O’Connor, senior medical scientist and Liz Fitzpatrick, chief medical scientist working on Covid-19 sample preparation in the microbiology laboratory at the Mercy University Hospital, Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

Microbiology laboratories are now running Covid-19 tests day and night writes Maresa Fagan

Medical scientists working in laboratories across the country are among the unseen heroes working in the background of the Covid-19 response.